Assistant Professor

Photography

BA Columbia College, Chicago; MFA University of Colorado at Boulder

Sama Alshaibi is Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Arizona. Alshaibi received her M.F.A. in Photography & Media Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her B.A. in
Photography from Columbia College, Chicago Born in Basra, Iraq to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother, and now a naturalized US citizen, Alshaibi's recent works investigates "borderlands", including her own hyphenated identity, as critical sites in physical and psychological terms. In her work the language of war and exile is prominent, a restless protagonist struggling against the double negation of her homelands. Selecting among her multiplicitous and polarized identities, Alshaibi’s own body puts to test issues of access, privilege and constraint. The work is an articulation of these negotiations between body, disputed land(scapes), and shifting political realities.

A multi-media artist, Alshaibi exhibits internationally including South Africa, The Middle East, the United Kingdom, China, South and Central America and the United States. Her work has recently appeared in Nueva Luz, Frontiers, and Social Dynamics. She is represented in Europe by Selma Feriani Gallery (London) and in the Middle East by The Empty Quarter (Dubai)

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e-mail: alshaibi@email.arizona.edu
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